It hardly seems that a day goes by without a new revelation of lobbyists in John McCain’s campaign. Last week I reported that, so far this year, five tainted staffers have had to resign. Still on the McCain wagon are uber-lobbyists Charlie Black and campaign manager Rick Davis. Media Matters has compiled a superb list [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
May 29
Dunkin, Malkin And Terrorist Scarves
When exactly is it appropriate to send in the guys with the butterfly nets? Ultra-conservative pundette, Michelle Malkin is mortified at the thought of extremist islamo-fascists infiltrating America and hypnotizing its citizens with ….. SCARVES! In a recent advertisement, Dunkin Donuts featured Rachel Ray in what Malkin, and other right-wing alarmists, believe is a symbolic [...]
May 29
Jessica Yellin: Press Succumbs To Patriotic Fever
In a discussion on CNN of the book by former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, Anderson Cooper quoted a passage that criticized the press for not being sufficiently aggressive in their coverage of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. McClellan: “If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the [...]
May 28
The Scott McClellan Confessional
Former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, has joined the ranks of Bush administration castoffs to write a tell-all book illuminating their role in degrading our Democracy. While this book is a particularly damning reminiscence, it is also a stab at absolution. Here a few of the atrocities that McClellan is revealing while asserting he [...]
May 27
Send Me To Netroots Nation
Democracy for America is sponsoring a scholarship competition to send a worthy applicant to the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, TX, in July. I have submitted an application for the scholarship and you can help me to win it. To support me you can click on this button: Then just log in (or create an [...]
May 27
Spy On Vegans For The FBI
The City Pages of Minneapolis, MN, is reporting on the recruitment efforts of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in advance of the Republican National Convention. The article tells the story of a University of Minnesota student who was solicited for undercover surveillance duty. The targets of the investigation are potential protesters. But the description [...]
May 26
The War Prayer
From the Washington Monthly: In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called “The War Prayer.” His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory [...]
May 25
Stuttering Karl Rove Won’t Deny Siegelman Allegations
Last week the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Karl Rove, who has refused to appear before the Committee to answer questions regarding the investigation and prosecution of the former Democratic governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman. Rove is alleged to have improperly directed the Justice Department to pursue the Siegelman case for political purposes. Rove, who still [...]
May 25
Liz Trotta Of Fox News Jokes About Knocking Off Obama
It doesn’t get much worse than this. Liz Trotta is a Fox News contributor and former New York bureau chief of The Washington [Moonie] Times. As if it isn’t enough to conflate Osama and Obama by mixing up the names (as many have done before her), she goes on to assert with giddy laughter… “and [...]
May 25
The Truth About Fox News And Pravda
Ordinarily the viewpoint of a biased, journalistic extension of state propaganda would hardly seem noteworthy. The tendency of such an enterprise to weight its coverage with rosy scenarios penned by government scribes would render the reporting suspect at best. But enough about Fox News… In an article analyzing the ratings competition between American cable news [...]
May 23
Hillary & The Dead Kennedys
This past week has seen a perverse conspiracy of events that strains the capacity for people of good will to avoid giving up on civilization all together. It began with the sad news that Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. As the shock and trauma of that news was settling in, [...]
May 23
John McCain’s Secret Medical Records Revealed
After more than a year of stalling, John McCain is finally making his medical records public. However, the process by which he is releasing the data suggests that he hopes it doesn’t become too public. His campaign has chosen the Friday prior to the three day Memorial Day weekend for the document dump. Even worse, [...]
May 21
Battered Nation Syndrome
As the eight year long nightmare that is the Bush Administration limps to a close, the threat of more pain and suffering is dangled over our heads by the Republican Party that has been so much a part of the recent pattern of abuse. And like many perpetrators of domestic violence, Republicans are begging us [...]
May 19
John McCain’s All-Lobbyist Express
The past few weeks has brought repeated announcements from the campaign of pseudo-maverick John McCain regarding the dismissal of staff members due to their lobbying activities. It’s not enough that McCain raises more money with the help of lobbyists than any other presidential candidate… Nope, McCain also employs so many lobbyists that there seems to [...]
May 18
The Real McCain: Derailed
This new video from Brave New Films does an outstanding job of exposing John McCain as the flip-flopping, knee-jerk, conservative sycophant that he is. Pass it on.
May 15
Republichol: For The Change You Deserve
The more things change….. In an increasingly complex world, many people find it difficult to cope with the stresses of day to day life. The strain of caring for a family, paying the mortgage, job insecurity, and terrorists lurking at the Dairy Queen, can result in crushing anxiety and fear. But now, from the makers [...]
